The Kukusunda (; , ''Kukuhunda'') is a river in

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(Sakha Republic) and

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. It is the longest

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of the

Arga-Sala The Arga-Sala (; , ''Arğaa Salaa'') is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic) and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is the largest tributary of the Olenyok with a length of . Its drainage basin area is . The river basin is a lonely, desolate area devoi ...

, of the Olenyok basin, and has a length of and a

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area of . The river flows across an uninhabited area of

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marked by

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. A small stretch of its source area falls within the Evenkiysky District of

. The nearest settlement is Olenyok village, located about to the east of its mouth.

Course

The Kukusunda is a left tributary of the Arga-Sala. Its sources are in the southern part of the

Anabar Plateau The Anabar Plateau () is a mountain plateau in Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Siberia, Russia. The plateau is in a latitude dominated by permafrost. The permafrost thickness under the Anabar Plateau reaches . Geography The A ...

, part of the

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, south of an area of lakes. In its upper course the river flows across a wide floodplain where its channel forms

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s. The river flows roughly eastwards and southeastwards. Then it finally joins the left bank of the

river from its mouth.

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Tributaries

The main tributaries of the Kukusunda are the long Dyara (Дьара) from the right, as well as the long Kharaga-Suokh (Харага-Суох) and the long Lamuyka (Ламуйка) from the left.

Flora and fauna

The river and its tributaries flow across an area covered by typical Siberian

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, composed mainly of

larch Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to the cooler regions of the northern hemisphere, where they are found in lowland forests in the high la ...

and

pine A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. ''World Flora Online'' accepts 134 species-rank taxa (119 species and 15 nothospecies) of pines as cu ...

. The main fish species in the Kukusunda are

lenok Lenoks, otherwise known as Asiatic trout or Manchurian trout,James Card: Fly fishing in South Korea.' Retrieved 22 June 2015. are salmonid fish of the genus ''Brachymystax'', native to rivers and lakes in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, wider Siberia (incl ...

muksun The muksun ''(Coregonus muksun)'' is a type of whitefish widespread in the Siberian Arctic waters. It is mostly found in the freshened areas of the Kara and Laptev Seas and up the major rivers, as well as in Lake Taymyr. Like all whitefishe ...

nelma ''Stenodus nelma'', known alternatively as the nelma, sheefish, siifish, inconnu or connie, is a commercial species of freshwater whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It is widespread in the Arctic rivers from the Kola Peninsula (White Sea basin) ...

omul The omul, ''Coregonus migratorius'', also known as Baikal omul (), is a whitefish species of the salmon family endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. It is considered a delicacy and is the object of one of the largest commercial fisheries ...

least cisco ''Coregonus sardinella'', known as the least cisco or the sardine cisco, is a fresh- and brackishwater salmonid fish that inhabits rivers, estuaries and coastal waters of the marginal seas of the Arctic Basin, as well as some large lakes of th ...

, whitefish,

taimen ''Hucho'' is a genus of large piscivorous salmonid fish known as taimens (from Finnish , 'trout', through ), and is closely related to Pacific trout and lenoks (all belonging to the same tribe in the subfamily Salmoninae). Native to the cold ...

, grayling and

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References

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Course

Tributaries

Flora and fauna

See also

References

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